An ongoing craftalong melding the fiberarts and movie watching, this group will view films, discuss them, and create using the films as inspiration!

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Nominations for November and December films

I know that many of us have just begun to see the film noir selections for this month, but we do need to start thinking about our film selections for November and December. I've decided to run nominations and voting for two months at a time, so we aren't constantly voting on movies, but can plan our film viewing and renting. So here are our themes for the next two months.

November's theme is Buddy films. Now the buddy film is more a movie category than a genre. Buddy films often cross genres. They are many times comedies, but not always. The hallmark of a buddy film is the focus on more than one (often two, but occasionally more) protagonist or main character, and a focus on the nature of friendship between the main characters. Some examples of Buddy films include Thelma and Louise, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Lethal Weapon, Stand By Me, The Blues Brothers, Beverly Hills Cop, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, any of the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movies, etc.

December's theme is Musicals. For our purposes, a musical is a film that incorporates songs sung by the characters that are incorporated into the narrative and advance the plot and/or character development. Many film historians consider the 1930s through the 50s to be the golden age of the musical, but there have been many successful musicals made recently such as Chicago, Moulin Rouge, The Producers and Rent.

So, we're going to be taking nominations in both categories for the next week. Please nominate no more than two films for each category in a comment to this post. Nominations will be collected through next Saturday, ending at Midnight PST. Then we'll vote during the last week in October.

ETA: Here are the Nominations so far (Wednesday morning). Feel free to second any of the nominations as part of your nomination if you wish. Seconded films will make it into our final vote, just like last time. So if you see a great film and you can't think of two new nominations, second it and make sure it makes it to our vote!

Buddy films:Seconded films which will make the vote:Some Like it HotShanghai NoonThe Big LebowskiOh Brother, Where Art ThouFried Green TomatoesButch Cassidy and the Sundance KidThelma and LouiseThe Odd CoupleNominated films waiting to be seconded:RushmoreRush HourAbout a BoyWedding CrashersMuriel's WeddingThe Frisco KidThe Colour PurpleAll the President's MenMidnight RunHis Girl FridayWithnail and ITwinsDumb and DumberSteel MagnoliasHow to Make and American QuiltThe Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the DesertSpy GameNew Nominations?

Fro the buddy films, I'm seconding Some Like It Hot and adding The Odd Couple.

For Musicals, I'm adding South Pacific (becuase nothing gets me hot and bothered like Some ENchanted Evening and because Nothing Like a Dame cracks me up) and Damn Yankees (maybe I just have a thing for Ray Walston!)